Re: [gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-02 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
If you just did emerge --sync, the problem that you have was not caused by this command. Do you have your dns configuration correct? please check you /etc/resolv.conf file. Does your DHCP server send nameserver to the client? 2007/2/3, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi - After a last emer

[gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - After a last emerge --sync I've been having trouble accessing the internet. My network interface comes up OK. I receive an address for the DHCP server (i.e. "eth1 received address 192.168.0.7/24") and I can see and access my Intranet webpage on 192.168.0.xx and copy files to and from variou

[gentoo-user] 'du' problem after emerge of coreutils

2007-02-02 Thread Rod May
Hi emerged coreutils up to 6.4 and the '-x' option on du seems broken, e.g.: root> du --version du (GNU coreutils) 5.94 root> du -s -x DVBig Docs.bak Gimp.bak 16730112 DVBig 1935776 Docs.bak 1227584 Gimp.bak so all correct with the old version, these are three simple directories on th

Re: [gentoo-user] scp login but confine the user to his home directory?

2007-02-02 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/2/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible and/or advisable to set up an account where a user can scp files in and out of his home directory using scp but if he logs into the machine using ssh he cannot go anywhere outside of his home directory? H

[gentoo-user] scp login but confine the user to his home directory?

2007-02-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible and/or advisable to set up an account where a user can scp files in and out of his home directory using scp but if he logs into the machine using ssh he cannot go anywhere outside of his home directory? Mainly the intended application is a group file server

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use win32codecs And if anyone wants to help me version bump the thing, e-mail me *off* list, plz Thanks Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
Steve Dibb wrote: > kashani wrote: >> James wrote: >>> Hello one and all, >>> >>> What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with >>> vlc on amd64? >>> >>> Any wikis? >>> >>> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... >>> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
kashani wrote: James wrote: Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Freitag, 2. Februar 2007 schrieb Adrian: > Greetings all -- > When she sends emails from her Mac: > Sometimes attachments don't arrive. is this the case? Or are the attachments not visible in the client? I'm quite shure there's a button to look at the mail source even in a client like ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:51:37 -0500 "Shawn Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan, > > Thanks for the reply. The client is a laptop running Windows XP Home > EditionI'. Server is a tower running Gentoo 2006.1, shorewall 3.0.8. > > The client is setup as follows: > IP address: 192.168.1.2 > Netmas

[gentoo-user] audio: can hear sound from line/mic but cannot record it

2007-02-02 Thread b.n.
Hi, I have an odd problem with audio recording. When I plug my guitar to the line in/mic in, it plays. I can hear the sound fine. So the input device seems to work correctly. But when I try to *record*, no matter the application (audacity, rezound, arecord) the application freezes and no output f

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry

2007-02-02 Thread Shawn Singh
Dan, Thanks for the reply. The client is a laptop running Windows XP Home EditionI'. Server is a tower running Gentoo 2006.1, shorewall 3.0.8. The client is setup as follows: IP address: 192.168.1.2 Netmask:255.255.255.0 Gateway:192.168.1.1 DNS: 192.168.1.1 I've changed my /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:48:32 -0600 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:28:11 + > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:15:25 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > foo > > your IT guys are idiots. As if there was a 'MAC

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Mick
On Friday 02 February 2007 17:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:15:25 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > While we're at it, my 2007 Hyundai Getz 1400 is running rough for the > > > first few minutes in the morning. Any of you gentooites know how to > > > fix this? > > > > Col

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
James wrote: Jakob Buchgraber googlemail.com> writes: As far as I am informed the win32codecs are not related to any archticture, they just provide codecs used on Windows Systems. Which errrors do you get? Hello Jakob Despite including 'win32codecs' in my USE flags and in the /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread kashani
James wrote: Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:33:36 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello one and all, > > What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with > vlc on amd64? > > Any wikis? > > I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... > Yes I realize that 'win32' an

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread James
Jakob Buchgraber googlemail.com> writes: > As far as I am informed the win32codecs are not related to any > archticture, they just provide codecs used on Windows Systems. > Which errrors do you get? Hello Jakob Despite including 'win32codecs' in my USE flags and in the /etc/portage/package.use

[gentoo-user] Re: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/

2007-02-02 Thread James
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. volumehost.net> writes: > > Any insider tidbits > > on liveCD 2007.0 ??? > I've not been hearing anything about it good or bad, so I still expect it > sometime in February. Hello Boyd, No news is good news, I guess thx James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:30:29 -0500 Fei Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I am curious is, it seems a lot of source code packages are > cached on my local machine, what should I do to remove them from my > hard drive? > Fei you can delete /usr/portage/distfiles/* if you want to; i think

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 02 February 2007 21:29:33 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Also, if you use the long option name you must use two dashes '--' and not > one '-'.  You argument '-update' is equivalent to '-u -p -d -a -t -e', > which includes (among other things) the -e (--emptytree) flag, forcing > emerge t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:28:11 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:15:25 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > foo your IT guys are idiots. As if there was a 'MAC' mail and a 'PC' mail. they should be fired for their fundamental misunderstanding of a core inter

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Fei Liu wrote: Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.s

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Fei Liu wrote: Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Fei Liu
Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: C

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Fei Liu
Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup webalize

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup webalize

[gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Fei Liu
Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup webalizer-2.01.10-r12.eb

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
James wrote: Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe

[gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread James
Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jakob Buchgraber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2007 19:16 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow ... snip ... Hey everybody! I've upgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] Precedence order of overlays

2007-02-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 02 February 2007 16:58:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Do note that portage will consider e.g. foo-20050101.ebuild a higher > > version than foo-.ebuild. > > Why is that? Because 20050101 is a bigger number than ? Yes. -- Bo Andresen pgpGALOm46zEL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry

2007-02-02 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:07:59PM -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: > I've got my /etc/conf.d/net setup as follows: > > # eth1 (LAN) config > config_eth1=( "192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" ) > routes_eth1=( "192.168.1.0 via 192.168.1.1" ) # the idea here is that I wish

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:15:25 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > While we're at it, my 2007 Hyundai Getz 1400 is running rough for the > > first few minutes in the morning. Any of you gentooites know how to > > fix this? > > Cold where you are? Double check your fluid levels. If they are

[gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry

2007-02-02 Thread Shawn Singh
Hello list, I've got my /etc/conf.d/net setup as follows: # Interface Handler modules=( "ifconfig" ) # eth0 (WAN) config config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) # eth1 (LAN) config config_eth1=( "192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" ) routes_eth1=( "192.168.1.0 via 192.168.1.1" ) # the id

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.
Nice answer, nice distribution list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 February 2007 09:55, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win': While we're at it, my 2007 Hyundai Getz 1400 is running rough for the first few minutes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Precedence order of overlays

2007-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 February 2007, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 02 February 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I want to guarantee that foo-.ebuild in /usr/local/portage will > > be emerged in preference to an identically named and versioned > > ebuild in layman. How do I do that? > > > > If I can't gu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 02 February 2007 09:55, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win': > While we're at it, my 2007 Hyundai Getz 1400 is running rough for the > first few minutes in the morning. Any of you gentooites know how to fix > this? Cold where y

Re: [gentoo-user] Precedence order of overlays

2007-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > I have several packages that I maintain my own ebuilds for, as it's > > CVS sources. I keep these in /usr/local/portage. As it happens > > ebuilds for these same packages are also in layman, and I have the > > relevant overlay enabled. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/

2007-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 02 February 2007 09:42, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/': > Any insider tidbits > on liveCD 2007.0 ??? I've not been hearing anything about it good or bad, so I still expect it sometime in February. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Ed Santiago
>When she sends emails from her Mac: >Sometimes attachments don't arrive. Have the Mac person try this: Go in to Mail, Preferences -> Composing. The top preference is: Composing: Message Format: "Rich Text" is probably selected. Pick "Plain Text" instead. This is a good i

[gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/

2007-02-02 Thread James
Hello one and all, Any insider tidbits on liveCD 2007.0 ??? just curious, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:21:57AM -0700, Adrian wrote: > Our "IT" people are telling here this is because Mac email is not > "compatible" with PCs. My intuition & years of computer use is > telling me this is bullshit. There's RFC for emails. It has nothing to do with platform, it has to

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 February 2007 14:22 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win ... foo ... > > When she sends emails from her Mac: > Sometimes attachments don't arrive. > Sometimes t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:31:26 +0200 Mikko Husari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Adrian wrote: > > Greetings all -- > > > > Here is a question I'd like opinions on. We have a new director at > > my job and she uses a Mac. Naturally, we are all PC based using > > Windows and *barf* Outlook.

[gentoo-user] I want you for Bugday!

2007-02-02 Thread Alexander Færøy
Greetings! This is a short reminder about that it is Bugday time once again! It is actually as soon as tomorrow! Join #Gentoo-Bugs on Freenode and help out fixing the various bugs from our Bugzilla. Our team of developers will be available for help all day long, so feel free to poke any of the o

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Mikko Husari
Adrian wrote: Greetings all -- Here is a question I'd like opinions on. We have a new director at my job and she uses a Mac. Naturally, we are all PC based using Windows and *barf* Outlook. When she sends emails from her Mac: Sometimes attachments don't arrive. Sometimes the emails never a

[gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Adrian
Greetings all -- Here is a question I'd like opinions on. We have a new director at my job and she uses a Mac. Naturally, we are all PC based using Windows and *barf* Outlook. When she sends emails from her Mac: Sometimes attachments don't arrive. Sometimes the emails never arrive (or so peo

[gentoo-user] Re: Precedence order of overlays

2007-02-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 02 February 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > I have several packages that I maintain my own ebuilds for, as it's CVS > sources. I keep these in /usr/local/portage. As it happens ebuilds for > these same packages are also in layman, and I have the relevant overlay > enabled. > > So far

Re: [gentoo-user] Precedence order of overlays

2007-02-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
> I have several packages that I maintain my own ebuilds for, as it's CVS > sources. I keep these in /usr/local/portage. As it happens ebuilds for > these same packages are also in layman, and I have the relevant overlay > enabled. > > So far it would appear that my local overlay is taking preceden

[gentoo-user] Precedence order of overlays

2007-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, I have several packages that I maintain my own ebuilds for, as it's CVS sources. I keep these in /usr/local/portage. As it happens ebuilds for these same packages are also in layman, and I have the relevant overlay enabled. So far it would appear that my local overlay is taking precedence

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-02-02 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia piątek, 2 lutego 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse napisał: > Nope, just the target Adress is rewritten (by routing). DNAT is > Destination NAT! I.e. the target IP of the packet is rewritten. Since > the Linksys is the default gateway, packets can keep their source IP > address. Of course, the source MA

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-02 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Jakob Buchgraber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 February 2007 19:16 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow > ... snip ... > Hey everybody! > > I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.19 (gentoo s

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-02-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:45:53 +0100 Pawel Kraszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dnia środa, 31 stycznia 2007, James Colby napisał: > > > I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet > > through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is > > currently forward

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-02-02 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia środa, 31 stycznia 2007, James Colby napisał: > I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet > through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is > currently forwarding all ssh traffic to my gentoo box. What I would ^ Take note, that fo